It was one hell of a Jikook weekend. So many Memories of 2021 moments but after the dust has settled this is one that I keep coming back to. The openness of the embrace and the warmth of Jimin's "I love you". These two are, without a doubt, kindred spirits and I hope they can retain that connection however their relationship evolves in the future because as Ethan Hawke once said, ""The older I get the more I realize it is rare to meet a kindred spirit".

So if you find one, hold on tight because that person is a rare and beautiful gift that life has given you.

Look at those full smiles, you don't see such unguarded expressions very often. It makes me happy to know these two are going about their daily lives somewhere in the world.

Credit to the Twitter users who have been kind enough to share these videos.

Hi, it's KY here :)

How is everyone feeling about the Taennie news? Knetz have fully accepted the truth and moved on, I suggest I-fans need to do the same. (Jennie is known for having dating news come out regularly, so it's not a big deal for BP fans. For Armys, the sane ones, we've known for a while now haven't we? It's not a shock anymore.)

I read the comments on my previous ask and don't worry! I will not be sharing anything sensitive whatsoever. I find it funny when other shippers say things like "How is it possible that K-fans can keep things to themselves?" I don't think I've seen anyone else address this yet so let me tell you why.

K-Jikookers are mostly queer. Yes, you read that right. Unlike other shippers, who are straight women that self-insert as one of the members (like they do with TK) we support them as a couple. This means that we don't want to date either of them, and we don't self-imagine as their partner - we know that they're unavailable because they're exclusive to each other. You get me? And we know first hand how terrible it is to be queer in a conservative society. There are actually very few real romantic shippers in Korea, (again, KM is the only romantic ship that has a substantial fanbase) simply because it is so hard to accept two men dating. This is why you will see K-Jikookers on Twitter all being close friends/meeting up in person, because they are kindred spirits. I think it might be hard for westerners to really understand. How do I emphasize this more? The older generation in Korea, anyone older than 30+, is deeply homophobic, to the point where they see anything LGBT as western influence and pervasion. Being American, I know it's hard to grasp that level of homophobia - it's not hate comments about your sexuality or people refusing to sell you a cake for a gay wedding. It's social death, rejection, parents disowning their children, getting fired from your job. I'm not kidding. Do you think us, as queer fans who love and support KM, will willingly out them?

We would never, ever, ever do that, because we know the repercussions. Some Jikookers like to fantasize about their coming out, and I want you to understand: the K-side is terrified of that day. Yes, we all think it will happen in due time, but we are very very scared. You think the hate that JM is getting now is bad? You think people sending food to JK's apartment is bad? Nope. You haven't seen anything yet. You understand what I mean, right? Their coming out will not be a cute post. It will be a carefully orchestrated move complete with a legal and PR team. If/when they are out, their lives will be in immediate danger. I truly believe they will leave the country for a bit, maybe even months, maybe a year. There will not be any public sightings, fan meets, concerts. KM know this very well too. I'm sure there's already a plan in place for it.

And anyone searching for KM evidence on K-Jikookers social media, I would say don't bother. It's almost impossible. The white day photo leak was a massive mistake, and I know exactly who leaked it because they were removed from all group chats immediately. K-Jikookers were very very angry with them (and also cussing out foreigners...please, we all need to keep our mouths shut and keep stuff within our own circles.)

-KY

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I too, the Jikookers that I know, I have never seen them self insert themselves. Those are y/n idiots who do this shit. Not even in private spaces do I see this happening. We support them as a couple, despite how hot we may find them. We understand and believe they only have eyes for eo.

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I don't want to be one of those haters or anything, but why did Jimin call Jungkook his younger brother if they are in a relationship. Technically it makes no sense, and personally, I ship Jikook too much to believe that they're only brothers. But I had to ask this.

Please anon, what quote are you talking about? Where from?

If you are talking about the 2020 Festa profile, where he calls JK "my dongsaeng", well dongsaeng doesn't mean brother as is, but more like something you call someone younger than you, not necessarily familial brother.

At the same time in JK's profile by JM he went all out and for what JM is for JK he writes: "Jiminie hyung that I love is my forever best friend, my soul brother, and my precious hyungnim."

...that I love...

Forever best friend - no explanation needed here. soul brother, which is basically his kindred spirit.

Hyungnim, which is 'mob boss', 'crime boss', one's elder.

I get your question, I do, but we constantly need to remember in the back of our mind where those two are. Not USA or Canada or Western Europe. They are in SK, where being in a m/m relationship can end a career.

jikook has also lost magic for me (though I'm still trying to be updated.haha). like you, I've seen videos and pictures of them that at first looked exclusive to them but then I realized it's just normal. I see this mostly on JK, cause JM is more transparent with his fondness of JK. the skinship, the stares - JK does this to everyone, I even think with skinship he's sweeter to the others than with JM. what I haven't seen yet with others is the soft tones they use with each other.I also think they still spend so much time together compared with the others. I love their bond, what they have or had.I'm just not sure if they are or ever were a couple

Yep, I agree with several of the things you said, about JK skinship and stares. You don't understand how important it was to me in 2019, there was one time I felt like crying because of how much LOVE there was in his eyes while looking at Jimin. That changed at the end of 2019 tho and like I said it was so important to me that I guess I noticed every little change and I literally felt my heart breaking when I started noticing that JK pretty much was looking at everyone in a similar way. There is a difference in the amount of time he spends watching Jimin, but I don't think there's much difference in the way he looks at Jimin and the way he looks at anyone else nowadays. Jimin has always been more transparent for me too. For other people, JK is more transparent. That's okay but it's not my experience.

For me too them spending so much time together compared to the others is telling. Not that it makes them a married couple but it is telling. It speaks to how much they like each other. You can love someone and not want to see them a lot lmao. But usually you go to the people you like spending time with. Well in short I've said before how within BTS, they are each other's person. At least when looking at every relationship in BTS and what I've learned all these years about the general dynamic of the group, jikook for a while have given me that impression. That they're each other's person within that larger group of people. Does that make them a full established couple? I dunno. It doesn't have to, it can be that they're just friends. Kindred spirits (I thought of that and I remembered that Jimin actually wrote soul brother in JK's festa profile). Do they have the same relationship with other people who are not in BTS? Probably yes. Probably not.

Without considering their relationships with other members, and JK skinship and all that and how it has impacted and somehow "weakened" my belief that they were together, apart from that; being realistic, no matter their relationship, something like the latest periods of silence, of almost no public interactions, it kinda makes sense considering how long they've known each other and have been friends. It's honestly surprising that the infatuation and the childlike excitement in their interactions lasted for so long... It was literally nonstop for like three whole years.

There's also the fact that the nature of their schedules changed with COVID. Almost all of their schedules were public or semi public and now all of their schedules are private.

It's not that I'm ""over"" them, it's just a change of perspective. A change that I welcome tbh, because right now, if their 'silence' becomes louder and their interactions go down to zero, it would not hurt as terribly as it would've hurted two or three years ago.

PS: this is the look that I remember made me tear up, I've mentioned this moment before in another post but I couldn't find a link and I still can't find a link of the moment alone, but it is briefly shown in this video at the very beginning.